Simucube 2 True Drive Paddock - Feedback and suggestions

[Mika]

Not a known issue. Is there anything else needed to reproduce than just having wheel base turned off while starting iRacing?

[Mika]

@Andrew_WOT

Agree, “add new profile” should always be active if not already.
Edit, delete, rename should apply to active or selected by default profile, additional click seems like unnecessary and confusing step.

You are right. However, the profile is not “stored” as such in True Drive anymore - the store location is the Paddock or the offline/cached files in the directory. Therefore to always indicate the correct active profile on the list of offline/cached profiles, would require some work. Currently, whenever a new profile is made or deleted, the list will just get refreshed - and the same refresh also happens when a Paddock profile is used. I’m now thinking on how the list could be made to track the last profile that was sent to device, but haven’t come up with a clean solution (in code) yet.

[datoml]

No, you should be able to reproduce it with the same procedure. =)

[Mika]

I can confirm, it seems to be happening on my PC as well. I wonder what has changed, it must have been a recent change somewhere, as we did test this after the firmware was rewritten.

As a workaround you can toggle the Enable FFB button in iRacing options: Options, toggle off, OK, Options, FFB on.

[CLAYREGAZZONI]

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[SuperMonaco_GP]

@Mika I’d like to return to 21.9, what does that mean?

[datoml]

On the wiki is a post about how to trigger the downgrade. You need to start true drive with a parameter.

[SuperMonaco_GP]

I know how the “old” downgrade worked, but this was in the 21.11 changelog :
" * Firmware update/downgrade to the installed True Drive version is automated without the need to use command line parameters"

[datoml]

Simucube 2 firmware downgrade

Downgrading is not possible for all firmware, nor is it well-tested, and we are not promising that this option will be working properly for all future versions. You might loose all settings; please save the profiles_autobackup.ini file for later settings import if that happens. In the old version you want to downgrade to, create a shortcut of True Drive.exe. In the shortcut properties, in target field, add word fwdowngrade to the end of the field. For example, the field could read as follows: …

Try this.

[datoml]

Oh ok. I missed this one

[SuperMonaco_GP]

this would presume I need to reinstall 21.11, and make a shortcut of the .exe, but I doubt it will work with the paddock.exe.

[Mika]

Yeah, downgrading to previous versions that do not have the installer, need to run the downgrade via the parameter.

But in the future when there are lots of versions with installer, then running installer + launch will prompt the downgrade to the installed version.

[Mika]

@SuperMonaco_GP

I’d like to return to 21.9, what does that mean?

Can you tell us why there is a need to downgrade for you?

[Joe]

Great thanks Mika!
I will likely get another Pro after the new years holidays.

After you register and have full access you don’t necessarily need to connect to the internet again unless doing updates etc?

[SuperMonaco_GP]

sure, I wanted to test the new paddock but I find the classic mode way easier to fiddle with. not that paddock is bad per se, i just don’t need it.

[SuperMonaco_GP]

ok so make the shortcut of the 21.11 paddock.exe and edit that?

[mfkomega]

Just a quick positive feedback from my side; I have the smoothest driving experience with the 2021.11 release since I started racing with 2020.3.
Thank you

[Mika]

If you register and login to Paddock, then you can have your profiles stored there (in My Profiles view), filter them by simulator, etc. And that of course requires internet connection to work. Each of the profiles you use will get cached and will be able to be accessed in offline mode. However any changes you make in the offline mode will not get synced back to Paddock if you use Paddock again.

[Mika]

You make a shortcut to the True Drive.exe of the version you like to downgrade to - just as it says on the instructions post. so if you want to downgrade to 2020.1, you download 2020.1 and make shortcut to that version’s exe file.

It should be obvious that we couldn’t make the improvement to already existing releases of the software.

Next step in improving user experience in this, is to automate the whole process without opening the separate dialog and start button in the dialog.

[DrRob]

Since changing to 2021.9 Paddock it is really hit or miss if the SC2Pro activates the proper profile or not. In 90% of the cases I start ACC I’m left with a non-high torque motor although it is shown as being in high torque mode. Typically I switch profiles, save again, diable and enable high torque mode and it works out eventually.
From this perspective that is a huge step back from the old classic version, where my profile was just like had wired and worked a charm every time.
Anything I should ook out for?